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'B. S. KERR. WASHING'MAGHINE.

Patented Mar. 15, 1898.

BIO/600.585,

Ira 6rd??? Nrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN S. KERR, OF MONROE, WISCONSIN.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,585, dated March 15, 1898.

Application filed May 12, 1897. Serial No. 636,267. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. KERR, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Monroe, in the county of Green and State of \Visconsin, have invented new and ing the pounder, and for which machinery of the pounder I make no claim in this application, the same being covered by the first claim or combination in my Patent No. 474,746. To maintain the piston-rod in a vertical position while the machine is being operated, as all tubs do not have the same degree -of flare from the bottom, I provide means by which said machinerymay be adjusted at will, so that the machinery may be placed upon or adapted to a tub or vessel whether the sides of the same are vertical or flaring at any degree, thereby always maintaining the pistonrod in a vertical position. I attain these objects by the machinery illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of the wash tub used and the pounder and a view in elevation of the piston-rod and the machinery connected with and attaching it to the tub. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the clamp, tongue, and bolt fixedly attached together. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the segment, the standard fixedly attached to the same, and the swivel-bearings laterally fixedly attached to said standard.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the views.

A represents the washtub or other vessel used for such purpose, to the side of which is clamped, by means of a thumb-screw, clamp N, which is composed of the arc of a circle at its upper end and from which project clownward two jaws, one on the inside of the tub and the other on the outside, the one on the inside being of greater length than the one on the outside, the thumb-screw passing through the lower end of the outer jaw against the outside of the tub. Around said are of a circle, at the top of said clamp, is attached fixedly to the same tongue 0. Adapted to fit the outer circle of said are and rest against the same is segment P. Segment]? is grooved on the under side to fit loosely tongue O. This groove extends through to the upper or outer surface of said segment P in a portion of the middle of the same, forming a slot through the segment for a portion of its length. Fixedly attached to tongue O and projecting upward from the same through said slot in segment P is screw or bolt Q, to which is adapted a thumb-nut, by which the segment may be tightened to the circle of the clamp N at any place on the same desired, said segment, in consequence of the length of the slot, having a reciprocal movement along and guided by said tongue 0 to the extent of the which is swiveled vertical standard T, and

fixedly attached at right angles to the same to the top of standard T is, at the middle of its length, bar U. At each end of bar U are, at the upper end of each, pivoted parallel equal-length rods V V. At the lower ends of rods V V is pivoted bar W, parallel to bar U. Fixed permanently at the center of bar W is vertical standard X. Rod Y is pivoted to standard X at one endand. at the other to piston-rod D. Lever Z is pivoted to standard X at one end and at about half its length to piston-rod D, the pivotal distance on standard X and piston-rod D' being the same, also the pivotal distance on rod Y and lever Z being the same.

The operation of the device for adjusting the machinery so that the piston-rodD will maintain a vertical position as the same is being operated without regard to the degree of the fiare of the tub or other vessel used is as follows: Clamp N is attached to the tub t'by means of the thumb-screw, as described.

Segment P is then moved, guided, and held in position by tongue 0 on the arc of the clamp until standard It is in a vertical posi- ICO tion. Segment P is then tightened to clamp N by means of bolt Q and its thumb-nut, and as standard T is vertically swiveled to standard R by swivel-bearings S S, and as pistonrod D always maintains a position parallel with standard T by means of the intervening machinery described, it follows that by such adjustment of said parts connected with said clamp the piston-rod D and its pounder attachments Will always maintain a vertical position in the Working of said machinery.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination clamp N adapted to be attached to a Washtub, or other vessel used for that purpose, by means of a thumb-screw, tongue 0 attached to the outer radius of the same, segment P grooved and slotted as described, bolt Q fixedly attached to tongue 0, and its thumb-nut, standard R fixedly attached to the segment as described, pivotal bearings S S fixedly attached to the same as described, and vertical standard '1, bar U, parallel rods V V, bar WV, standard X, rod Y, lever Z, and piston-rod D, all substantially as shown and described.

BENJAMIN S. KERR. Witnesses:

MAUD KERR, A. F. KERR. 

